** Neil Williams gave a talk ''Emdebian 1.0 release, small and super small Debian'' at the FOSDEM 2009. A [http://free-electrons.com/pub/video/2009/fosdem/fosdem2009-williams-emdebian-1.0-release.ogv video] is available.

** Neil Williams gave a talk ''Emdebian 1.0 release, small and super small Debian'' at the FOSDEM 2009. A [http://free-electrons.com/pub/video/2009/fosdem/fosdem2009-williams-emdebian-1.0-release.ogv video] is available.

* Embedded Gentoo - http://embedded.gentoo.org/

* Embedded Gentoo - http://embedded.gentoo.org/

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* [[GeeXboX]] - http://www.geexbox.org/

** GeeXboX is an embedded multimedia distribution that turns your device into a full-featured MediaCenter.

** GeeXboX is an embedded multimedia distribution that turns your device into a full-featured MediaCenter.

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* Aboriginal Linux - http://landley.net/aboriginal/

=== Special purpose embedded Linux distributions ===

=== Special purpose embedded Linux distributions ===

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== Configuration and Build systems ==

== Configuration and Build systems ==

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** Buildroot is a set of Makefiles and patches that makes it easy generate a cross-compilation toolchain and root filesystem for your target Linux system using the uClibc C library.

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** Kconfig based build system developed by [http://www.pengutronix.de/index_en.html Pengutronix]

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** GPL licensed

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** [http://free-electrons.com/pub/video/2009/fosdem/fosdem2009-schwebel-ptxdist.ogv Video] of a talk given by PTXdist maintainer Robert Schwebel at [http://www.fosdem.org FOSDEM 2009]

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Contents

Introduction

Besides the Linux kernel, one of the advantage of embedded Linux is the ability to leverage hundreds if not thousands of existing free and open source packages to easily and quickly add new features to devices. These packages range from graphical libraries, multimedia libraries, network libraries, cryptographic libraries, network servers, infrastructure software and more. However, integrating all these components together requires a relatively deep knowledge of the components. Hence, embedded-specific distributions and build systems have been created to ease this process.